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December 06, 2014, 12:18PM

"Ninety-nine percent of it is gone. It will regenerate, I believe," Robert Leslie Smith said of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta forest that he remembers from his youth. Smith grew up the son of a logger, and witnessed firsthand the rough life along the rivers. (Mike Kittrell/AL.com)

December 04, 2014, 4:32PM

R.L. "Leslie" Smith, 96, is pictured at his home Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, in the Baldwin County community of Latham, Ala. Smith describes a pull-boat cone used in logging operations in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta around turn of the century. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

December 01, 2014, 9:36AM

﻿"River Dreams" is a documentary depicting a man's canoe journey from Birmingham through the Mobile-Tensaw Delta to the Gulf of Mexico. On Tuesday, a free screening brings it to edge of the very Delta waters through which its maker paddled. Full story »

August 16, 2014, 3:35AM

Travis Black of Montgomery, Ala., piloting boat, and hunting crew work the Tensaw River on Friday, August 15, 2014, in Stockton, Ala., during the second night of the 2014 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulated alligator hunt. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

August 16, 2014, 3:35AM

Nick Brooks of Reeltown, Ala., and hunting crew work the Tensaw River on Friday, August 15, 2014, in Stockton, Ala., during the second night of the 2014 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulated alligator hunt. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

August 16, 2014, 3:35AM

Travis Black of Montgomery, Ala., and hunting crew work the Tensaw River on Friday, August 15, 2014, in Stockton, Ala., during the second night of the 2014 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulated alligator hunt. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

August 16, 2014, 3:35AM

Travis Black of Montgomery, Ala., and hunting crew work the Tensaw River on Friday, August 15, 2014, in Stockton, Ala., during the second night of the 2014 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulated alligator hunt. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

August 16, 2014, 3:35AM

Travis Black of Montgomery, Ala., piloting boat, and hunting crew work the Tensaw River on Friday, August 15, 2014, in Stockton, Ala., during the second night of the 2014 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulated alligator hunt. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

August 16, 2014, 3:35AM

Travis Black of Montgomery, Ala., left, Nick Brooks of Reeltown, Ala., and hunting crew work the Tensaw River on Friday, August 15, 2014, in Stockton, Ala., during the second night of the 2014 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulated alligator hunt. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)

August 16, 2014, 3:35AM

Nick Brooks of Reeltown, Ala., and hunting crew work the Tensaw River on Friday, August 15, 2014, in Stockton, Ala., during the second night of the 2014 Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources regulated alligator hunt. (Mike Kittrell/mkittrell@al.com)